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Team ICO's Fumito Ueda Wants to Make First-Person Games

The creative head of games such as ICO, The Last Guardian and Shadow of the Colossus would like to make a first-person game.

It's not very often that you hear Japanese developers sing the praises of first-person perspective games, but that's exactly what Team ICO's Fumito Ueda has done. At the Tokyo Game Show, G4 interviewed the studio head who is currently hard at work on the PlayStation 3 exclusive The Last Guardian, only to discover that he's very interested in developing an FPG. This via Kombo:

Ueda said, "I have an interest in making first-person games."

Why FPSs in particular? Ueda cited the Half-Life series' groundbreaking form of storytelling: "Usually, you have to incorporate storytelling with constraints, but the way...[Valve] implemented constraints was something different that I enjoyed, compared to other games.

"[If] ...you're in the middle of play, in the middle of the game, then all of a sudden you're in a cut-scene [and] you're not supposed to operate at all - that's not the kind of game I want to do. If there is some other techniques that will not give them that kind of feeling, that's something I want to implement."

Whatever Ueda's desire, it'll most likely be quite some time before we see an inklings of a new game from Team ICO.

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Bryn says: Now this is something that I'd love to see happen. If talent such as Ueda's was brought to the genre there'd be real potential for something completely new and refreshing.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we'll see a new project from Team ICO in the future that involves more than the usual first-person game efforts.